Improvement in stqve-pipe cleaners



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Letters Patent No. 112,500, dated March 7, 1871i .nvIPRovEMENfI IN sTovE-PIPE CLEANERS.,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making' part of the same.

To all/whom. it may concern.'

Be it known thatl I, DAVID SANFORD, of Ashton,

in the county of Leeand State of Illinois,` have inxvented a new and useful improvement in'Stove-pipe `and Flueleaner; and I do hereby declare that `the p following is a full, clear, and-.exact description thereof, u which will enable others skilled inthe art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to thefaecompanying drawing formingpart of this specieation.

lhis invention relateslto a new and useful im-V provement in `mode offcleaning stove-pipes and ues,

and consists in a rod bent `in `a spiral 'form through-'-` out a portion of its lengtlnandwith the other `portion straight, as w'illbe hereinafter more fully described.

1n the accompanying drawing the figure represents `a Iongitudinalcentralsection of a stove-pipe with my improved cleaner' therein.

` A represents` the pipe,` and l `The wire or `rod C is-beut `so as to form a spiral of the size of the` inner diameter of thc stove-pipe. TheI `straight portion passes `through `the elbow D centrally with the pipe, as seen in the drawing, or otherwise,

" .Acleaner ofthis descriptionshould he made with a `spiral portion and shank, 'of such length that a longitndinal movement back and forth, or a rotating, will' loosen the soot from the pipe `so that it will fall into,

ornmay be gathered to, an elbow, where itimay be freadily removed, or so that, whenlooscued, it Will be carried oft' by thedrtinght.`

'The cleaner may 'be permanentlyconnected Iwith 4the straight sections of a stove-pipe' or flue when the latter is in use, so that the pipe or flue may be cleaned and a good draught preserved; or it may be'used in either long or short sections of pipe for thoroughly cleaning them `before putting up, or when the pipe is taken down for cleaning.

For furnace or other round fines the cleaner is quite as well adapted as for stove-pipe.v When the soot is once loosened from the pipe or ilue it will, if of recent formation, be carried ott by the draught. If the soot -has been allowed to remain until it has become hard or 'compact it may, when loosened, be remoyed as before described.-

The cleaner is operated either by a longitudinal orV 

